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Richard Polt
Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

Richard Polt is one of the most distinguished and prolific Heidegger scholars active today. He is the author of one of the best introductory books on Heidegger, Heidegger: An Introduction, as well as a commentary on one of Heidegger’s most difficult texts, The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy.”[1] Read more …

Published: June 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, liberalism, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, New Right, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, political philosophy | 5 Responses

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Historicizing the Historicists:
Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 2

Greg Johnson

Max Weber

4,535 words

Part 1 here

The Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Present Age

Not only does Strauss claim that historicism is a healthy reaction to the intellectual bankruptcy of the modern world, in the next section of his essay, he also attributes this bankruptcy to non-historicist causes.

First, Strauss talks about Max Weber’s Learning and Science as Vocation. He specifically objects to Weber’s claim that reason cannot speak about the ultimate aims of life: Read more …

Published: May 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, conservative revolution, Ernst Junger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Greg Johnson, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy, relativism | 2 Responses

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Historicizing the Historicists:
Notes on Leo Strauss’ “The Living Issues of German Postwar Philosophy,” Part 1

Greg Johnson

3,215 words

Part 1 of 2

Leo Strauss is widely known as a critic of historicism and an advocate of classical philosophy. Historicism holds that philosophical ideas are relative to culture, whereas classical philosophy aims for knowledge of nature, which is not relative to culture. But what is Strauss’s own point of view? Does he base his arguments on historicist or classical philosophical premises? Read more …

Published: May 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservative revolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, historicism, Leo Strauss, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, phenomenology, philosophy, relativism | 3 Responses

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O čtení mezi řádky:
Příspěvek k výkladům Lea Strausse

Greg Johnson

Leo Strauss, 1899–1973

6,759 slov

English original here

Poznámka autora:

Následující esej jsem napsal v 90. letech jako doktorand, ne v rámci svých studijních povinností, ale spíš abych si ujasnil své myšlenky ohledně čtení filozofických textů v rámci přípravy k psaní své vlastní doktorské disertační práce. Jen těžko dokážu uvěřit, že jsem míval dostatek volného času na to, abych psal eseje o skoro osmi tisících slovech „do šuplíku,“ ale důkaz máte před sebou. Read more …

Published: January 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, in Czech, Leo Strauss, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints | Leave a comment

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Friedrich Schleiermacher:
The Father of Modern Theology & a Prophet of German Nationalism, Part 2

Asklepios

4,506 words

Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

Schleiermacher’s Philosophy of Mind

According to Schleiermacher, the task of philosophy is the “immersion of the Spirit into the innermost depths of itself and of things in order to fathom the relations of their [spirit and nature] being-together.”[1] Schleiermacher’s philosophy, like German idealism in general, was very influenced by, and a reaction to, the critical transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Asklepios, Christmas, Friedrich Schleiermacher, G. W. F. Hegel, German Idealism, German Nationalism, Napoleonic Wars, nationalism, philosophy, Protestantism, Romanticism, the Jewish question, theology | 4 Responses

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Notes on Philosophical Dialectic, Part 2

Greg Johnson

Martin Heidegger

2,441 words

Part 2 of 2

3. The Hermeneutic Circle in Heidegger’s Being and Time

Heidegger’s purpose in Being and Time[1] is to explore the question of the sense (Sinn) of Being (Sein). By “Being” Heidegger means the meaningful presence of beings to a knower. By the “sense of Being,” Heidegger refers to the meaningful presence of meaning itself. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, dialectic, Edmund Husserl, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, phenomenology, philosophy | 3 Responses

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Greg Johnson on Heidegger at Majority Rights Radio

Greg Johnson

Heidegger modeling his Hobbit hat

108 words

I talk to Guessed Worker and Daniel Sienkiewicz at Majority Rights Radio about Heidegger and the politics of identity here.

Topics include: modern politics and the abolition of limits, the necessity of a return to limits, the classical notion of nature, the notion of weighty historical contingency, Heidegger and the Conservative Revolution, Heidegger in relation to National Socialism and the New Right, Heidegger and authenticity, race and historical identity, Heidegger and Darwinism, and science in relation to philosophy and common sense. Read more …

Published: February 9, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, biological race denial, biological race differences, existentialism, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, National Socialism, news item, Plato, white nationalism | 3 Responses

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Julius Evola:
The World’s Most Right-Wing Thinker

Jonathan Bowden

10,311 words

Julius Evola, La Genitrice

Editor’s Note:

This text is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s lecture on Evola delivered to the 27th meeting of the New Right in London on June 5, 2010. As usual, I have deleted a few false starts and introduced punctuation and paragraph breaks for maximum clarity. You can listen to it at YouTube here. Three passages are marked unintelligible. If you can make out the words, please post a comment below or contact me at [email protected]. Read more …

Published: October 17, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, deconstruction, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, race, sports, the Jewish question, Traditionalism | 13 Responses

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Stewart Home:
Communism, Nihilism, Neoism, & Decadence

Jonathan Bowden

11,050 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V.S. of one of Jonathan Bowden’s most entertaining lectures, which was delivered to the 25th New Right meeting in London on February 13, 2010. Although Stewart Home is the principal subject, Bowden romps through a wide field of politically correct theories, ultra-Left sects, and decadent forms of modern art.

Introduction to Plato’s Republic, Part 2

Greg Johnson

3,160 words

Part 2 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is based on a transcript by V. S. of a lecture on Plato’s Republic. As usual, I have edited his transcript to remove excessive wordiness and corrected a couple of small mistakes.

Plato writes in his Seventh Letter that he never set forth his own philosophy in any of his writings. That’s a pretty extraordinary statement for one of our greatest philosophers to make. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, articles, esotericism, Greg Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Strauss, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, The Republic, thumos | 2 Responses

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Paul Gottfried’s Leo Strauss & the Conservative Movement in America

Greg Johnson

3,906 words

Paul Edward Gottfried
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Paul Gottfried’s admirable book on Leo Strauss is an unusual and welcome critique from the Right.

Leo Strauss (1899–1973) was a German-born Jewish political theorist who moved to the United States in 1937. Read more …

Published: January 24, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, conservatism, Greg Johnson, historicism, John Locke, Leo Strauss, North American New Right, Paul Gottfried, philosophy, political philosophy, reprints, the Jewish question | 7 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 79
An Introduction to Plato’s Republic, Part 2

Greg Johnson

37:04 / 166 words

Part 2 of 2

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Strauss on Persecution & the Art of Writing

Greg Johnson

8,150 words

Czech version here

Leo Strauss, 1899–1973

Author’s Note:

I wrote the following essay in the 1990s while in graduate school. It was not written for a class, but merely to clarify my thinking on how to read philosophical texts in anticipation of writing my doctoral dissertation. Read more …

Published: January 3, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Greg Johnson, Leo Strauss, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 19 Responses

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Evola on Aurobindo’s Secret of the Veda

Julius Evola

Aurobindo Ghosh, 1872–1950

778 words

Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghosh)
Secret of the Veda
Pondicherry, India: Aurobindo Ashram, 1995

From 1944 to 1946 the periodical Arya—issued in Pondicherry in a limited number of copies and impossible to find anywhere today—published a series of essays by Sri Aurobindo on the secret of the Vedas. Read more …